Kartuzy is a PKP

Polskie Koleje Panstwowe

is the dominant railway operator in Poland.The company was founded when the former state-owned operator was divided into several units based on the requirements laid down by the European Union...

 railway station in Kartuzy

Kartuzy

Kartuzy is a town in the historic Eastern Pomerania region of northwestern Poland, located about west of Gdańsk with a population of 15,472...

 (Pomeranian Voivodeship

Pomeranian Voivodeship

Pomeranian Voivodeship, or Pomerania Province , is a voivodeship, or province, in north-central Poland. It comprises most of Pomerelia , as well as an area east of the Vistula River...

), Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

. The station is now operating freight transport only, but SKM is planning to open connections from Gdynia

Gdynia

Gdynia is a city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland and an important seaport of Gdańsk Bay on the south coast of the Baltic Sea.Located in Kashubia in Eastern Pomerania, Gdynia is part of a conurbation with the spa town of Sopot, the city of Gdańsk and suburban communities, which together...

 to Kartuzy

Kartuzy

Kartuzy is a town in the historic Eastern Pomerania region of northwestern Poland, located about west of Gdańsk with a population of 15,472...

. There are also plans of reactivating Gdańsk Wrzeszcz - Stara Piła line, what means connection between Kartuzy

Kartuzy

Kartuzy is a town in the historic Eastern Pomerania region of northwestern Poland, located about west of Gdańsk with a population of 15,472...

 and Gdańsk

Gdansk

Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...

.

History

The first line to reach Kartuzy

Kartuzy

Kartuzy is a town in the historic Eastern Pomerania region of northwestern Poland, located about west of Gdańsk with a population of 15,472...

 was Glincz

Glincz

Glincz is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Żukowo, within Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south of Żukowo, east of Kartuzy, and west of the regional capital Gdańsk....

-Kartuzy

Kartuzy

Kartuzy is a town in the historic Eastern Pomerania region of northwestern Poland, located about west of Gdańsk with a population of 15,472...

 line in 1886. The line to Pruszcz Gdański

Pruszcz Gdanski (PKP station)

-Lines crossing the station:- References :*Pruszcz Gdański article at , URL accessed at 1 March 2006...

 was closed for all transport on May 29, 1994. The connection to Star Piła was closed for passenger transport in 1997. Connection with Lębork

Lebork (PKP station)

Lębork is a PKP railway station in Lębork , Poland. The station is reached by some SKM trains from Wejherowo-History:...

 was closed on June 23, 2000, connection with Sierakowice

Sierakowice (PKP station)

Sierakowice is a non-operational PKP railway station in Sierakowice , Poland.-Lines crossing the station:- References :*Sierakowice article at , URL accessed at 18 March 2006...

 in 2004

On November 14, 1901 line from Somonino

Somonino (PKP station)

Somonino is a PKP railway station in Somonino , Poland.-Lines crossing the station:- References :*Somonino article at , URL accessed at 6 March 2006...

 reached Kartuzy

Kartuzy

Kartuzy is a town in the historic Eastern Pomerania region of northwestern Poland, located about west of Gdańsk with a population of 15,472...

 as a freight line (one month later opened as a passenger line as well). The line was closed for passenger transport on February 1, 2003

Station buildings

The station building is now occupied mostly by shops. Locomotives depot (roundhouse

Roundhouse

A roundhouse is a building used by railroads for servicing locomotives. Roundhouses are large, circular or semicircular structures that were traditionally located surrounding or adjacent to turntables...

) is still present together with turntable

Turntable (railroad)

A railway turntable is a device for turning railroad rolling stock. When steam locomotives were still in wide use, many railroads needed a way to turn the locomotives around for return trips as their controls were often not configured for extended periods of running in reverse and in many...

  but in a very bad condition. Second depot was destroyed in 1945 by Soviets.
On one of auxiliary tracks PKP class Ty2

PKP class Ty2

Ty2/Ty42 - freight locomotive the construction of the German , massively built factories in many European countries in 1942-1945, also known as German locomotive Kriegslokomotive war....

-14 locomotive is placed as a monument.
Two signal box

Signal box

On a rail transport system, signalling control is the process by which control is exercised over train movements by way of railway signals and block systems to ensure that trains operate safely, over the correct route and to the proper timetable...

es were servicing this station (Ky and Ky2). There is still present steam locomotives servicing object, with water and coal loading devices.

Lines crossing the station

Start station	End station	Line type
Pruszcz Gdański Pruszcz Gdanski (PKP station) -Lines crossing the station:- References :*Pruszcz Gdański article at , URL accessed at 1 March 2006...	Łeba	Freight
Somonino Somonino (PKP station) Somonino is a PKP railway station in Somonino , Poland.-Lines crossing the station:- References :*Somonino article at , URL accessed at 6 March 2006...	Kartuzy	Closed